zhuangyuan
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See also: zhuàngyuán
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 狀元／状元 (zhuàngyuán).
Pronunciation
Noun
zhuangyuan (plural zhuangyuan)
- (historical) Someone who was ranked first class in the palace examination, the highest level of the Chinese imperial examination.
- 1998, Ju-hsi Chou, Art at the Close of China's Empire, page 55:
- Another inscriber who not only received the jinshi degree in 1801 but was the first among the equals, or the zhuangyuan, is Gu Gao (1763-1832).
- 1996, John Lust, Chinese Popular Prints, page 291:
- The system had been launched in the early Tang period, when the zhuangyuan had been first on the list of applicants submitted to the emperor.
- Someone who places first the in the modern gaokao college entrance examination.